Lost in Space (TV Series)
The Space Croppers (1966)
Mercedes McCambridge: Sybilla
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Quotes
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[Loud drumming and chanting attracts the Robinsons to their new neighbors midnight planting]
Effra : You shouldn't outta come. Earthly folks got no business here!
Maureen Robinson : We heard the chanting and we thought you wouldn't mind if we dropped in.
Sybilla : [sternly] We wouldn't mind if you DROPPED OUT the same way you dropped in.
Dr. Zachary Smith : May I compliment you on your singing, madam? Glorious! Glorious!
Sybilla : [obviously affected by Smith's remark, but nonetheless... to the Robinsons] What do you want?
Prof. John Robinson : We're interested in your planting methods, curious about your crop.
Sybilla : Your curiosity has no business here.
Effra : You'll find out soon enough, I reckon.
Maj. Don West : What does that mean?
Effra : Uh, how bad do you wanna know?
Sybilla : [low and threatening] I'll burn your tongue out. What we do - on our land - is exclusively OUR affair.
Prof. John Robinson : Agreed, but...
Sybilla : No "buts." "Buts" invariably lead to explanations, which I do not choose to give. Now we'll have no more talk, and no more VISITING.
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Sybilla : [pointedly] I've no time for chats OR neighbors.
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Sybilla : [holding Smith and WIll at gunpoint] And you, sir, and you, young man, are not at all welcome in this place. You may leave at once.
Dr. Zachary Smith : But, madam, as I tried to explain to your daughter, we are merely on safari looking for a werewolf.
Sybilla : "A werewolf" - a very dubious pretext, one I can hardly accept. Werewolves are the unhealthy machinations of timid little minds. Now, be off with you.
Dr. Zachary Smith : But, madam...
Sybilla : Be... off.
Dr. Zachary Smith : [backing away] Yes. Yes.
Sybilla : And STAY... OFF!
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Sybilla : [affectionately to her animated planets] Patience! You will be fed very soon. You're hungry little devils, aren't you? Well, you won't have long to wait, and then, when you have provided for me and my family, all the rest of this land will be yours, all this land, and everything that's on it, EVERY LIVING THING!
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Will Robinson : Dr. Smith, you don't belong with her OR with them. You belong with us. And you don't know what terrible things are gonna happen to you when you go with them, and you'll be too far away from us to help you.
Sybilla : [to Dr. Smith] I could dissolve him very easily from here. I could squash him squishy.
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Sybilla : Where's your brother Keel?
Effra : Oh, he's still out there. He hasn't finished his howlin' yet.
Dr. Zachary Smith : [alarmed and hearing a distant howl] Did she say "howling?"
Sybilla : Mm-hmm, but you won't have to worry about that, Zachary, now that you're one of the family. Just keep an eye on him at the time of the full moon, and the rest of the time he's quite easy to handle, once you get the hang of it - but Efra... Efra can be a trial at times, a real problem child, but I know you'll be masterful enough to handle her, too. Besides, she only practices her little tricks of witchcraft when she's bored or irritated, and then she does some pretty spooky things.
Dr. Zachary Smith : She does?
Sybilla : Hmm. Of course, she inherited those powers from her father and not from me. "My darling little witch child" he used to call her. She absolutely gets carried away when the plants are eating. She may ask you to hover in the sky. She may suspend you up there, but if she does you just outsmart her. You hang up there and close your eyes. It's better not to look while the plants are eating. It gets very messy.
Dr. Zachary Smith : What... do the plants do, Sybila?
Sybilla : They consume, Zachary. Ah... They consume EVERYTHING until there's not a living thing left. Not a stick. Not a THING. Now, aren't you glad that you proposed to me and I accepted you? You're safe with us.
Dr. Zachary Smith : Am I, Sybila?
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[the werewolf grabs Dr. Smith]
Sybilla : Just tell 'im that you're going to be his daddy, Zachary. He won't harm you if he knows you're going to be his daddy.
